> Hello All,
>
> I'm researching options in extending 3270 screens into a GUI on the PC.
> I'm know that 3270 screen scrapers are available but that's not exactly
> what we want. We would like to be able to have say 1 PC session with
> multiple windows/tabs opened, each showing something different and each
> being able to accept commands. The GUI screens can be in a browser or a
> stand alone application (for exampled, Eclipse).
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Frank
>
Frank,
Check out IBM's Host-On-Demand (HOD) terminal emulator.
It's a 3270 terminal emulator (similar to IBM's PCOMM) that is written in Java,
so is very portable. It supports exactly the tab-based emulator sessions that
you are looking for. Like PCOMM, it has an API that can be used to access the
screen contents.
To install HOD, you access a URL in a browser, and it downloads the various
JAR files and related packages from the z/OS web server. Thereafter HOD is
invoked as standalone application.
Spending time & money to generate something similar would seem to me to be
a waste of resources. Having host sessions on a tab is cute, and I do use that
feature at work at times. More often, I tend to use only one or two tabs, and
within each access multiple sessions via IBM's CL/SUPERSESSION.
Al
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